Literature from Diatrope Books

New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1946. Hardcover. Good. Unmarked text. Previous owner's name on front board. Edited with notes and commentary by Arthur E. Case. This 1726 prose satire by the Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift satires both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre. This text is based on the 1735 edition, which included… Read more about this item

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell and Company, 1908. Hardcover. Very Good. Unmarked text. Some wear on head and tail of spine. Color frontispiece and black-and-white plates. No date, copyright 1894 and 1908. Translated by Erving Winslow. Introduction by Montrose J. Moses. Illustrated end papers. 135 page with decorative borders. Measures 6x8.25 inches. Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949) was a Flemish… Read more about this item

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell and Company, nd. Hardcover. Good. Unmarked text. Faded spine with some fraying. Undated, probably about 1909. 463p. Measures 5.25x7.5 inches. Frontispiece illustration.

University of Virginia Library, Wayside Press, 1990. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Keepsake of an exhibition in the Department of Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, 9 December 1990--29 March 1991. Frontispiece engraved portrait of Rudyard Kipling by Marchioness of Gransby. Six black-and-white illustration throughout. Essay by Corrine McCutchan. Catalog by Mildred Abraham. 62p. Measures 5x8 inches. Edition… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner, 1914. Hardcover. Good. Unmarked text. Illustrated. Text in English. This 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was originally published in serial form. It takes place during the Bourbon Restoration, which brought profound changes to French society; the struggle by individuals to secure a higher social status is a major… Read more about this item

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell and Company, nd. Hardcover. Good. Unmarked text. Faded spine. Undated. Revised edition. 310p. Measures 5x7.5 inches. Blind stamp on board: The Astor Prose Series. Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists, A Medley was written by Washington Irving in 1821, while he lived in England, and published in 1822. This episodic novel was originally published… Read more about this item

Oxford University Press, 1977. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked text. Dust jacket under clear mylar cover. Illustrations by Warren Chappell. Introduction by Jacques Barzun. 300p. Measures 6.5x9.5 inches. This 1726 prose satire by the Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift satires both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre. This text is based on the 1735 edition,… Read more about this item

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell and Company, 1900. Hardcover. Good. Unmarked text. Copyright 1900. 315p. Measures 5x7.5 inches. Text in English. Introduction by W. P. Trent. Le Cousin Pons is one of the last of the 94 novels and short stories that make up Honoré de Balzac’s Comédie humaine. Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was a French novelist and… Read more about this item

Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2013. Hardcover. Like New. Unmarked. Gathered here are the five novels he wrote in his relatively short career, together with a number of the many short stories he wrote between 1922 and his death in 1940. The volume includes This Side of Paradise; The Beautiful and Damned; The Great Gatsby; Tender is the Night; and… Read more about this item

Thomas Crowell and Co, 1904. Hardcover. Very Good. Unmarked text. Rubbed edges. Beautifully decorated green hardback with gilt and russet decoration. Gilt top edge. Originally written in 3 volumes in 1852. This book contains all three volumes. It is a typical example of Victorian historical novels. Illustrated with 16 line drawings, a frontispiece and an image on… Read more about this item

Putnam, 2008. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked. Unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated end papers. Introduction by Mark Vonnegut. A collection of short stories published after Kurt Vonnegut's death. 234p. Illustrated.

New York Review Books, 2015. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. Remainder mark on bottom. Introduction by Joshua Cohen. Translated by James Naughton. Contains two linked narratives. Hrabal's rousing and outrageous yarns stand as a hilarious and heartbreaking tribute to the always imperiled sweetness of lust, love, and life. Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997) was born in Brno, Moravia, then part… Read more about this item

Noonday Press, 1996. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. A new verse translation by Robert Pinsky with notes by Nicole Pinsky. Foreword by John Freccero. 355p. Text in English and Italian.

Homage To The Classics Foundation, 1998. Hardcover. Good. Ex-library (stamped Persian Center) Swedish artist Karl Momen created 18 symbolic paintings, each representative of a major character from well recognized works of Shakespeare and Wagner. Introductions by Erland Jospehson and James A. Mason. Karl Momen (b. 1934) is a Swedish architect, painter and sculptor. Iranian-born, he painted portraits… Read more about this item

Knopf, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked. Unclipped dust jacket. First American edition, originally published in Great Britain. Small remainder mark on bottom. This novel looks at a mid-life transition during a single summer. 275p. Doris May Lessing (1919-2013) was a British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer. She won the Nobel Prize in 2007.… Read more about this item

Zurich: Scientia-Verlag, 1946. Hardcover. Good/good. Unmarked text. In German. Chipping on dust jacket. 259p. Ernst Wiechert (1887-1950), a German teacher, poet and writer, was one of the most widely read novelists in Germany during the 1930s.

Routledge, 1999. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. 280p. Exploring postwar literature as the barometer of Germany's unconsciously held values as well as of its professed conscience, Ernestine Schlant demonstrates that the confrontation with the Holocaust has shifted over the decades from repression, circumvention, and omission to an open acknowledgement of the crimes. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

New York: The Grolier Club, 1964. Paperback (Saddle Stitched). Very Good. Unmarked. A descriptive guide to the exhibition commemorating the death of Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804-1964. Exhibition took place October 20-December 5, 1964. Foldout of Nathaniel Hawthorne's estate in Concord, MA surveyed by Henry D. Thoreau, August 20, 1880. 17p.

Viking, 1982. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked text. Unclipped dust jacket. 13 illustrations. 402p. Edited, selected and introduced by Jane Marcus. Brings together some of Rebecca West's early journalistic writings, collected here for the first time, which reveal West's passionate responses to political and literary events as well as her experience in the suffrage campaign. Included are articles… Read more about this item

Random House, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked. Unclipped dust jacket, with illustration by Julie Mehretu (Black City, 2007, Francois Pinault Collection). Remainder mark. Collection of stories written over the course of many years. 183p.